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(11) | EP 0 614 181 A3 |
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| (54) | Disc player with compact magazine |
| (57) A disk player has a magazine for storing disks on carriages and a disk transport
mechanism transporting a selected disk between four positions including an eject position,
a load position, a playback position, and a store position which lie in a single plane.
The selected disk is carried upon a carriage from the magazine to the load position
where the selected disk is partially removed from the magazine to the playback position
above a disk reader. An alignment mechanism provides relative movement between the
magazine and a plane of transport of the disk transport mechanism permitting a selected
disk to be inserted or removed from the magazine at the store position. The disk reader
is positioned to read the selected disk while overlapping disks stored in the magazine
resulting in a smaller disk player size. The magazine pivotally holds the carriages
in a stacked arrangement with prongs engaging recesses in the carriages. The magazine
also holds a carriage for accepting disks of two sizes. A separator mechanism pivots
apart carriages in the magazine to allow sufficient clearance for removal and insertion
of a selected carriage. The separator mechanism also has a stopping protrusion which
serves as a keeper to hold a carriage below the selected carriage in the magazine
during withdrawal of the selected carriage. |